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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17
MINNESOTA NEWS,
Two New Minnesota jiisei:

Gov. McGill has appointed c: L. Brow
OF Morris Judge OF the new Sixteenth Judi.
cial district and C. w: Sleeper 81 Brainerd
Judge Of the Fifteenth judicial district.
The Sixteenth district consists OF the coun.
ties Of Stevens, Grant, Wilkin, Big Stone and
Traverse, and istaken from the Twelfth,
over which judge Brown Gather OF the new
judge) now presides: Judge Sleeper's
district Is made up Of the counties OF Wa:
Crow Wing, with Brain erd rs the central
focus: The district was originally the Elev.
enth, which is now made into three dis.
tricts:
e.. l.. Brown is q resident OF Morris,
Stevens county, and q member OF the law
firm OF Brown & Cherd. He has been en-
gagged in the active practice of his profess
sion for the past eleven years, and is rec
ognized by the bar OF the state as one OF
the ablest lawyers in western Minnesota He
inherits a judicial mind; his father, ohm H.
uncle, the late L. NJ. Brown, formerly judge
OF the Eighth district, both being regarded
40 profound IN the Jurisprudence OF the
law. Mr.. Brown is but thirty years OF
age, and is the youngest Judge in the state
tbs the only instance in this state that is
known OF where father and son have
presided at the same time.
Col. c. w. Sleeper was born in Holland,
n. Y, In 1888. He WAS educated in Au-
FORA academy, studied law in Buffalo and
was admitted to the bar in New York city
In 1850. He raised company and per-
formed gallant service during the war UNI
der Gen. Slocum. He resided in Mime
apolis two years, and removed to Brain.
erd in 1871. He has been county audit or,
court clerk, state attorney, and was last
year prosecuting attorney OF Crow Wing
county. He is considered very able ju.
rist. and to be possessed OF sound legal
ability.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17
GENERAL NEWS NOTES,
Death Of Captaiu Eads.

The death OF Captain ]. B. Eads. at
Nassau. New Providence, is announced.
:apt. Eads. ono Of the most prominent en-
.ineers Of modern times, was born ut
i.awrenccburs Ind, May %, 1890. He
made engineering his life study from the
time when. at the age OF nineteen and
*hlle serving as clerk on q Mississippi
steamer he first became interested in this
branch OF knowledge, His first PROPOSE
lion to remove ehe 5nags IRON tho Missis-
slrpi and is tributaries was made TO con-
!rcss in 1856. but was not accepted. BY
lnvitatio Of President Lincoln he design
"a - powerful fleet OF gunboats for theee
riversi n lSGl-the fret iron taads built
by the United States lie first applied
steam to the manipulation OF heavy artil.
'ery. and later designed the famous steel
arch bridge at st. Louis. His greatest
work was the constitution Of the jetties 1t
the mouth OF the Mississippi undertaken
against the advice OF the eblcsc American
engineers, bat proving entirely successful.
For the work Capt. Eads received very
large sums from the government. OF late
years his scheme to transport ships across
the Tehauntepec isthmus ON Il mammoth
ship railway has attracted wide attention.
strong company is now in existence and
has been asking the sanction OF congress
Tor the project. A bill in furtherAn6a OF
this enterprise was discussed during the
closing days OF the recent session Of con.
sress, but did not pass.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17

Among the measures that have
been discussed at length, but failed
of being finally acted upon by the
last congress are, the Blair educational
bill; all tariff bills; all bills relating to
silver coinage except the trade dollar
bill; the bankruptcy bill; the bill pro-
hibiting members of congress from
acting as counsel for subsidized rail.
road corporations; the Pacific rail-
road refunding bill; the premption and
timber culture repeating bill; the de-
pendent pensions bill, vetoed and veto
sustained; the bills for admitting GER
tain territories as states of the Union;
all canal bills; the arrears OF pensions
bill; the Oklahoma bill; the consular
service bill; the woman suffrage con-
stitutional amendment; the South
American reciprocity scheme; the free
ship bill; the labor arbitration bill;
the postal telegraph bill; the interna-
tional copyright project; all bills re-
lating to financial regulations and
national currency; the proposition to
abolish secret sessions of the senate;
the bill prohibiting the taxation of
commercial traders; the Notifications
and gun-foundries bill; the agricultural
and labor department bill; the pleuro
pneumonia bill; the Freedmen's bank
depositors bill; the inaugaration-day
amendment Of the constitution; and
many Others, good, bad and indiftei {.
ont, affecting general, local and Judi.
Y!aual affairs, -,....-
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4 Marderer's Frlghtful Visions.

Edward unger who was sent to Sing Sing
for life !. month ago, for tho murder Of All.
gust B"hle. is now in the hospital OF the
prison sufferer from nervous pros.
ration and almost d Maniac:
lie killed his roommate, cut him
up and cent him away in d trunk. His
PHYSICAL strength before his trial was
great and Ills steat;iness OF nerve in court
was surprising; but his stamina is all gone
and he has become a miserable, covering
wreck. On his first morning in tte prison
he told a keeper that he Mad. been visited
during the night by his dismcmbered
victim, who had proceeded to reconstruct
himself in the terrified prisoners presence
Of this delasion he could not be discussed
lie firmly believed it was reality. Every
uisht it came to him, and at the end OF d
week the s"perstitious convict was deliri.
Gus. All efforts have failed to relieve him
of these awful visions, and the prison ply
s:cian advises his removal to the state
asylum for lunatic criminals.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17

An army officer says that small as
our army is, there is an excessive per.
centage OF desertion from it, although
the men are far better fed and paid
than any soldier in the world. The
reason is that great number of men
enlist fer the purpose of being sent
West, and then DESERVING. This class
is very large and exceeding hard to
deal with, as it is next to impossible
to apprehend them. owing to the gen.
eral feeling throughout the mountain
regions that they have escaped from a
kind OF slavery. Another class liable
to desert consists OF young men of
rood family who.have become::dissipa-
ted, and enlisted in moment OF de.
spair. But the strangest class is that
o. the chronic deserters.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17
VicissltudeS of Faro.

A Los Angeles youth who has been
led into evil associations has lately
''bucked the tiger at lis North Spring
street. The other evening his money
rapidly disappeared until the last S.
was placed upon The seven spot.
''lf that seven loses I'll blow out my
brains!" exclaimed the young man. as.
with set lips, he awaited the result of
the turn. Anxiety and suspense we're
depicted upon every face and old
timers forgot their own bets while watt
ing for the seven-spot to win or lose.
Finally the seven came. and lost. All
ayes were turned upon the desperate
Iouth, who called to his companion,
saying:
"Come on, Chicago; let's 20 down
Ind stand Jerry off for the oysters!'-
Los angeles Spice Boz.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17
Purity ofths Supreme Bench.

Justice Miller accompanied by q hand
some curly-headed boy, who carried bun:
aic OF supreme court recorde; entered q
public vehicle on his way home, and found
himself in g"ctp OF senators and con-
sres'nen. us that your Sunday literature
Judge asked Senator CockreIl.
well, wouldn't like to be examined on
that point" replied the judge, laughing.
"ihey are the cases we have disposed OF
this week. 1.-THE telephone case ID not
among thcn?' was jocniarly asked. With
NO; the record is too bulky, and the case
/! too important. presume, however, we
SHALL announce - decision in that case some
lime in April, if not before. That book
said the Judge (pointing to the quarto vol.
unle which the page was firmly claspng},
'has history. There was time when
each judge kept an ofdanry book, in
which, as zach case was decided, no enter
ri who was to prepare the opinion and
what judges agreed with him and who dis
sentcd, but it was found in some way the
knowledge OF decisions that were to be
made leaked out and WAS made the sub
lect OF spccu!a ton OF the stock markets.
SO now, rs you SEQ there he directed his
young attendant to turn the book he held
SO that the front would be visible), we
keep our memorandum books locked and
each judge has one key
Upon the WHOLE added the Judge,
Il am inclined to think very highly
Df the purity OF the American bench.
There are vases which we decided
last year which would have enabled any
member OF the court by simply taking adj
vantage OF the knowledge he had OF the
views OF the majority" "Or limiting them
20 his vile or some other confidential
friend interrupted Senator Cockrell
Yes, in that or in any other way he could
have put IL million dollars in his pocket;
but here we are just az VIC were last year,
md no whisper OF anything OF that kind
has ever been heard ,"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17
Word Pictures,

No attribute which the poet pos
sesses is of more utility to him in Sc
curinga permanent audience, than the
ability to make his writings possess
vague and mystic undercurrent. Beau
tiful and striking figures catch the fam
cy of the reader. and impress thoughts
on his min!. when, perhaps, if the
same thoughts were given in the plain
setting of common language. they
would have bat transitory dwelling
place. Shakespeare metaphor:
Knights candles are burned out,
And jocund Day stands tip toe on
The misty mountain tor,
is familiar example.
Some one has said that the writings
of Thomas Moore do not possess sim
gle really fine smile. On the other
hand the writings of VIII am Collins
abound in figures. Yet Moore, is per-
haps. the more popular poet of the two;
neither of them possess the subtle beauty
that pervadcs the poetry of Edgar A.
Poe. So it is inferred that mere figurat;ve
language may not possess the charm
which may be given by combination
of simple words. and which causes one
to look beyond the poetry and into the
authors heart. In this mysterious
power of word pictures no writer sur
passes Wordsworth. His verse
The lady of Mere
Sole sitting by the shores of old Romance
was considered by Southey the finest
example in our language of pure poetic
charm. And again, his
Breaking the silence Of the seas,
Among the farhest 1lebrides,
is coup!et of potent beauty. This in.
definite charm. however, occurs III
many forms. In Thompson's Castle
of Indolencc:''
The Hebrid isles,
Placed far amid the melancholy morn.
In Coleridse's enchanted river, where
the Alph of Xanadu is sinking
Through cavcrns measureless to man
Down to = sunless sea.
In Shelley's,
The AOlian music of her sea-green plumes
Winnowing the crimson down.
In Keats, to whom ''bcauty yields
up her heart"
Magic easements opening on the foam
OF perilous seas and fairy lands forlOFn.
This is the essence Of poetical beauty.
which gives the preference to the ideal
rather than to the real, which chooses
the phantom instead of tho statue,
which cares naught for sublime
imagery or transcendent strength, bu,
is satisfied with the rich and varied
presence Of suggestion.-A. L. Hanesh
IN 1Ne cvrrtHk
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17

Thus far the reports from the win.
ter wheat belt indicate that the crop
is emerging from the winter in better
shape than last year. The crop is
not assured from the resulting dam.
age OF storms and bad weather, and
still has to pass Though q critical pc.
Rod, but as whole the outlook must
be regarded as moro favorable than
at the beginning of March last year.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17

Although Massachusetts, is con-
stantly gaining in population, the
growth between the state census
years 1875 and 1885 being 300, 229,
or 1857 per cent, yet there were 1853
towns in tine state which showed a
loss during that period, the greatest
loss OF all being in the small agriculture.
al towns, whose inhabitants are being
diminished in numbers through migra-
ton to the cities and to the new COM
munities of the west and south.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17
Why the Chickens Came Out.

An anecdote is told of little fellow
who. on turning over the leaves of a
scrap book, came across the we'll
known p: cture of some chickens just
out of their she'll. My companion ex-
amincd the picture carefully and then.
with \ grave sagac Gus look at me.
slowly remarked, They came out COS
they was afraid Of being boiled. -
W30l Iwokd
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17

General Warner, one of the most
gallant soldiers who ever sat in the
house, said in q speech on the depen.
dent pension bill that the first cost
OF the civil war was 50, 100000, 900.
That has been paid. and with it pen.
slons amounting to about $780,
100000, and it will require at least
$4,000, 100000 additional to pay
the future charges OF interest, pen.
sions, etc.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17

A gentleman of close observation
and long conversant with Warrington
ways, says that the government ap-
pears to have few friends at it's seat,
Almost every man one meets, and
the women and children as we'll, gems
to be interested in efforts to get mon
ey out OF the treasury upon so me
pretence or another, where an equiv.
alent had never been given.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17

There is no comfort or pleasure to
be derived from q contemplation OF
the figures showing the fire losses in
the United States and Canada for the
month OF February. These, as com.
piled by the New York Commercial
Bulletin, give q total OF $500, 900,
or $500, 900 more than the average
for February during the past thirteen
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17

Morrill, s. Buffers, twenty three years
old, who was struck on the head by a
billiard cue in the hands OF John Brown at
Thompson, died the same evening.
Brown is in jail. He claims self defense.
At Hastings G.. w. Morgan was SEN
fenced to thirty days in the county Jail
upon the charge OF obtaining So under
false pretenses from John Weber, proprie.
tor OF st. Johns hotel.
The residence of r. I. Track at Anoka,
was totally destroyed by fire.
The affairs OF the deiunct Shakopee
Manufacturing company are in worse
plight than ever.
There is q lively war among the oil COM
panies supplying the merchants of Man
kato with kerosene and oil is now retail
Ing at nine cents per gallon.
The case against Hon. P. H. Rahilly, OF
Lake City, the complaint being assault and
battery on Charles E. Bellman, was dismiss
ed. Rahilly acted in selt-defence.
The county commissioners have purchas-
ed 16O acres of land three miles north of
Window, paying 81, TO, for the same, for q
poor farm.
At Montrose, Lindsey's furniture store
was burned. Loss, $4,000.
B. T. Hartshorn is a candidate for tho
judgeship OF the Fifteenth district.
The St. Cloud Street Car company, with
$50, 900 capital and right of way to Sank
Rapids and East St. Cloud, has been in
corpOrated.
William s. Baker, we'll known old set
tier, who has lived in Waseca since 1856,
died at his residence, aged seventy nine
years.
Insurance Commissioner Shandrew fur.
nishes the following interesting statistics,
relative to the life insurance OF the
state during the year 1856: Reg.
ular companies in the state, 26; poll.
cies issued, 2,769, amounting to 81, $685.
$40; premiums received, $500, FOL Is; loss
es paid, $4O3, 7O5.67. Gain over 1885 in
policies written, 537; in amount insured.
81, 7o4, GOT; in premiums received, 1925
36O.92; in losses paid, $92, 111.6O. Poll
cies now in force in Minnesota, 3.651,
amounting to $50, 269, SOC. Assets OF the
companies carrying above insurance over
$55O,OOO.OOO. Total number OF policies
in force Dec. 81, 1886, in the United
States in these companies $50, 900, insur-
ing 81, 165, 100000.
Mrs. L. Topliff has instituted q suit in
the district court against the city OF Aus
tin for alleged physical injury, caused by a
fall on an icy sidewalk.
At Redwood Falls, while Jesse Miller
was erecting a wind mill On the farm of A.
B. Pike piece of scaffold fell on him fatal
ly fracturing his skull.
James S. Hughes OF St. Paul has been
selected by Supt. Kiehle as the new assist.
ant in the department OF public instruc-
tioc.
At Pipestone Mrs. Smith, nearly eighty
years old, who has been an invalid for
some time, went to an clubhouse and
hanged herself.
There is great activity in real estate at
Winona.
Gov. McGill vetoes eight acts OF the late
legislature.
Arrangements are being made for q BAN
quet at Moorehead in honor OF Senator
Comstock in appreciation Of his services
| at the last session OF the legislature.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17

The bill to return to the several
States the direct war taxes paid TN.
der the law OF 1861, was not reached
by the House before its adjournment.
1t therefore fell with the late Congress
and q new beginning will have to be
made at the next.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17

Owing to the fact that the minis Of
the country have stopped the manu-
facture OF gold dollars these coins are
commanding q premium-in some in.
stances OF twenty-five cents. The
manufacture OF $3.50 gold pieces has
also been stopped, and these command
premium OF five per cent.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17

On the day when Congress adjourned,
after three months legislative palter.
ing, there were left in the Treasury
$4S2, 100000 in gold, silver and green
banks, with $228. 900, 900 certificates
outstanding. leaving 1854, 900, 900 Of
net supplies.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17

Canada lands have been in cultivn-
ton as long as those in New-York,
and much longer than those of Indiana,
Ohio. Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota,
while the last two have not yet nearly
got past the "virgin" condition of the
soil, as it is called. Yet the Canada
farmers, used always to care for the
manure and apply it to their fields
from the first cultivation of them.
have preserved the fertility of the soil
and surpass in yield OF crops every
state in the Union, including tho 20
called newer ones,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17
They Had No SteeDle.

1--WE have no steeple 10 our church,"
A member once was heard to say;
1T does not seem a church at all,
Especially on Sabbath day."
"A steeple, SIR" another said,
Who overheard the conversation.
"Will never sancHfv a church
Nor earn its members their salvation.
''You may costly sp!re upbuild,
Until it equals mountain height;
But it will not more pleasing be
Than chapel in Almighty's sight.
'Good works are better far than all
The stecples reared by hand of man;
And blest are temples crowned by such,
For they fulfil Gods holy p!an.'
-Michaei J. Ad ms, IN The Curren
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17

The most remarkable divorce case
OF the year is reported from Chi
cago. When the case was called the
judge looked down and asked if the
parties had tried the experiment OF
living together again. The lawyer for
the lady replied that they had not.
Suppose they try it," suggested the
Judge. "A softened expression came
over the faces OF the parties to the
suit, and they left the court room a
reunited Dair.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17

A statistician says that the com.
bined Federal and State taxes in thi.
country amount to So per head. The
Italians pay $40, Hollanders $1,000,
Belgians $11, Germans S12, French
SO.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17
April Fool

When Uncle Sam and Johnny Bull
Walked out, one morning cool,
John pointed to our coast defense,
Ana shouted ''April fool"
-DanylLe Breeeze
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17
THE TAXPAYERS MONEY.

Complete Liat Of All Moneys Appropriated
by tho Late Legislatures; and for What
Purpo3-.
Tho following is complete list Of all tho
appropriations made by the late legislature.
a. taken from tho records in State Auditor
B1aden's Office:
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-17
A Royal Slip.

Copenhagen Special: A gentleman pres.
cnt at court ball at the royal palacs
thus describes q sensational accident that
happened to King Christian:
After supper the father OF the princess Of
Wales and the czarina danced a cotillion,
daughter Ut his prime minister. A
portion OF the floor near the queens
throne had been SO waxed and polished az
to make it slippery rs a sheet OF ice. Five
couples, including the king and Miss
Estrup, were Waiting near the slippery
spot when two couples slipped, fell and
rolled on the floor. Almost at the same
instant the kings foot slipped and his
majesty fell on his back at full length,
bringing down with him Miss Estrup,
whose neck was slightly cut by one
OF the kings decorations. In the fall
the back of the kings head struck the
corner OF one OF the steps OF the queens
throne with a report like that OF a popgun
There was at once CONSERVATION, most .p.
palling; the music ceased. and the king
stunned, remained motionless Every.
body thought lie was killed. Ladies'
screamed, and Miss Estrup tainted away.
The king was the first to recover his
presence. OF mind. Bleeding from the
sheet, he tried to rise to his feet, but fell
back again on the floor. Ladies OF homo,
placed wet handkerchiefs to his maiesty'x
forehead and placed smelling salts beneath
his nose. In a few minutes he was assisted
to his feet. He at once made sign to the
orchestra to resume the music and desired
tho dancing to recommence. He himself
made tour oi the ball room with Miss
Estrup on his arm. doing his best to tran
quilize her, but shortly afterward the entire
court lett the ball rom, and everybody
went home. The next day the queen wa.
attacked with nervous trembling. result
and the king was obliged to remain in his
room two days. This, perhaps, is tht
most sensational incident that has han
pened at any court festivities in Denmarb
since the memorable occasion when thu
royal Dane was startled by the unex pected
denouemcnt OF Prince Hamlet's play O.
THE Mouse Trap"
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A Gigantic Railroad ABSORPTION.

Tho New York Tribune has a big sensa
ton in the shape Of an almost positive
statement that the Baltimore & Ohio rail
road is to he sold to the Reading Railroad
company, and that the Western Union Tele
graph company is to absorb the Baltimore
& Ohio Telegraph company. There is also
a mysterious consolidation OF the Posta
Telegraph company and Commercial Tele
graph company. and this is also suspi
cious. In fact, it looks as though tl,t
Western Union was about to gobble ever.
telegraph company in the country.
The New York Times says that the con
troll OF the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
company has passed into the hands OF al
fred SuIly OF New York and thot it is to bt
o part of the system which includes the
Jersey Central, the Philadelphia and
Reading, the Richmond Terminal md
Richmond T. Danville. tho East Tennessee
irsinia & Georgia, the Central Railroad
OF Georgia-6, 900 miles Of track. TIL,
control OF the Baltimore & Ohio telegram
company also goes 70 tho syad!cats,